Trauma, the Body and Attachment

Format: Zoom (via Eventbrite)

Speaker: Dr Nicola Diamond

Date: Saturday 29th May 14.00 – 15.30 BST

IAN & AGIP Members fee £35 (enter members discount code at point of purchase) | Non-members fee: £50

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trauma-the-body-attachment-tickets-142339668781

This Seminar is also Week 11 of our PG Certificate in Attachment Theory. Registered PG Cert students will be given a code to access free tickets on the Eventbrite page on the day of the seminar.

The quality of key attachment experiences provides the basis for how we feel in our own body and self, it effects the impact of adversity on the bodily self. In this seminar Dr Nicola Diamond examines at the profound effect of insecure attachment and trauma on the bodily self and investigates states of not feeling at home with oneself and estrangement in the sense of self. Gross, subtle, and accumulative trauma will be addressed. This will include abuse, missteps in the communicative exchange and the ability to be resilient in facing physical illness. This lecture will look at how Attachment impacts the embodied self.

About the Speaker:

Dr Nicola Diamond is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice and a lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic (London). She has been Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London, Lecturer at the University of Exeter and Director of PhD Studies in Psychotherapy at Regent’s University (London). She has also worked as a psychotherapist for The Helen Bamber Foundation (for survivors of torture and trauma) and at the Women’s Therapy Centre in London. She is the author of Between Skins: The Body in Psychoanalysis -Contemporary Developments; Wiley & Sons (2013) and co-author of Attachment and Intersubjectivity with Mario Marrone; Whurr publisher (2003). She is founder member of the International Attachment Network. She has taught in the UK, USA, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and Spain. She has also given an online lecture for IAN India. She has published many articles and book chapters, including most recently ‘A case of Mistaken Identity: Countertransference and Multiple Dissociation’ ( co-authored with Mario Marrone) in Introduction to Countertransference, edited by Paola Valerio.